Miniature Hydropower Station Essay

Miniature Hydropower Station

Abstract

Hydropower stations have become one of the several stations that the world uses to produce electricity. The main source of power for hydro power station is water, the water is usually found from dams or rivers. The Water is used to power up a station that is later used to produce electricity. There are a lot of advantages of using water as a power station, but the most important is the fact that water is renewable, so there is very little risk of water running out unlike coal which in many countries is the main resource that is used to power up the electricity producing stations. The starting costs of building a hydropower stations are high, but once it is operating it is the most reasonable stations to run, in comparison to the other power stations. The conversion to electrical energy is accomplished using devices such as the generator and the turbine. The miniature hydropower station that is presented in this report will go into detail about how the turbine and the generator operate. The miniature hydropower station will be designed with the objective of being able to induce enough current that will light up a red LED light.

Introduction

Using water to be able to operate machines is called hydropower [1]. Water from the rivers and the dams is used to power the machines that are built in a

Which will consists of blades that are made from soda bottles plastic; it is light and can handle power from the water. The stator will consist of the magnets, which will be stationary. The rotator will have the coils which will rotate; it is easier to make the coil rotate, because the copper wire is not as heavy as the magnets. The total power that will go into the turbine will the given by the equation (3)[3] of power. Using the equation the estimated theoretical power is 123 W; refer to Appendix A for the calculation. This is the input power of the